Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-02
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The annual income of the hospitals
of London is roughly estimated at
s55O.OOO.
1t is estimated by a correspondent
of the Paris Matias that the republic
costs France $50, 10000 francs more
yearly than the monarchy.
The famous diamond mines OF
Golconda, on the Gauges, are now de-
serted. Two centuries ago sixty
thousand persons of both sexes and all
ages found employment in them
United Presbyterian.
On his eightieth birthday Kaiser
Wilhelm gave his medical attendant,
DR.. Won Lauer, a purse containing
S37, 800, and on his ninetieth birthday,
S75, 0.-Public Opinion.
The Car has just promoted four
hundred and eighty-two officers of the
Russian army in batch-to Siberia.
This is in consideration of their real or
supposed connection with political con-
spiracies.
The report that Lake Ngami, in
South Africa, had dried up, is authori-
tatively contradicted. 1t is gradually
becoming smaller. however. This lake
was one of Livingstone's more import
ant early discoveries Y Ledger
The French project of fertilizing
the African deserts by means of ar
tesian wells is reported to be working
admirably. On tract of $4,000 acres
of worthless land granted by the Bey of
Tunis, an area of 375 acres is alre ady
under successful cultivation through
the aid of the first we'll. and two other
wells are in progress, which are ex-
pected to lrrigate 1850 acres.
Tho cost of the municipal police in
Paris, exclusive of the commissarie s
and the sedentary service. is over 81. :
500, 900 year, the material expenses
figuring for about 50, 100000 and sal
aries for 81 12S. 900. The chief inspect
ors are paid 81, 200 year, the captains
about 800. the brigadiers $3.50 a year,
and the 6, 800 ordinary policemen re-
ceive an average of 1862, or 1, $40 francs
philadelphia Press.
! There are other expensive things
| in ware and ceramics than peachbloW
| vases. it seems; for, at a recent auction
in Paris, small plate sold for $1,000
francs. At the same sale bedsteao
| sold for 1900 francs. 1t is said the
beGstead the Emperor of Germany
sleeps on is an iron camp bedstead moi
worth over S25; but he would doubt
less sleep more soundly if he did mo-
have to think so often Of the gay city
where this expensive brio brac &C
cumulates. Hour.
"A velocipede made in the yeal
1852 is kept in the city archives a
Nuremberg, Germany, and an old bool
printed in 1908. entitled 'Historica
| Account of the Nuremberg Mathemat
| ical Artists" is found this passage
s.Stephen Farflers, of Altdorf, went t.
| work and constructed little Wagon
| on three wheels, in which, by means o
an artistical arrangement, he man
aged to drive to church without an.
assistance, all of which shows thu
truth of the old adage that ''there il
| nothing new underline sun. "-Chicag
Times.
The Sovereigns of the Sandwich
Islands have been liberal in the pro
motion of public charities. Kin!
Lunalilo, the present Kings immedi
ate predecessor, left by will a larg
property for the founding and main
tenance of the Lunalilo Home for oil
and INDECENT Hawaiians. The lat
Queen Emma left her large estates i
trust for the Anglican Church Mission
King Kalakaua has given much tim
and money to the completion OF
large and handsome churchfor native
of the Congregational denomination
and Queen Kapiolani has founded tn
Kapiolani Home for the children Q
Hawaiian lepers.